Narrators Quotes

• I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Unbiased, Objectives

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• I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Vintage, Seductive, Balance

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “TARZAN OF THE APES SERIES - Complete Collection: 25 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated): The Return of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan, The Son of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Tarzan the Untamed, Tarzan and the Golden Lion, Tarzan the Terrible and many more”, p.5, e-artnow

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• In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together.'

  Constance Hale

  Writing, Important, Together

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• Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

  James Lee Burke

  Voice, Matter, Hearing

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• El afán de un oyente acelera la lengua de un narrador.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Tongue, Listeners, Eagerness

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.165, Penguin

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• Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.

  Ethan Canin

  Important, Together, Stories

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• I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

  S. E. Hinton

  Escribir, pensar

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “The Outsiders”, p.121, Penguin

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• I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.

  Philip Pullman

  Wise, Silly, Writing

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• The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

  Andrew Vachss

  Running, Tape, Surveillance

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• A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

  Eyvind Johnson

  Years, Achievement, Looks

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• Muy a menudo mi narrador o protagonista puede ser un hombre, pero no estoy seguro de que sea el personaje más interesante, o si el personaje más complejo no es la mujer.

  Ann Beattie

  Carácter, Hombres, Interesante

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• In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

  John McTiernan

  Cameras, Thrillers, Active

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• My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

  Willie Stargell

  Baseball, Retirement, Jobs

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• Los narradores en primera persona es la forma que conozco de escribir un libro con más fuerza y posibilidades de éxito artístico.

  Anne Rice

  Libro, Escritura, Literatura

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• Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

  Manuel Puig

  Objectivity, Cameras, Literature

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• You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

  Margaret Atwood

  Views, Pyramids, People

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• I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.

  Steven Wright

  Used, Mime, Used To Be

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• It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.

  David Attenborough

  Liars, Believe, Motherhood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Smart, Believe, Realizing

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.

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• When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.

  Ben Lerner

  Mean, Order, Octopus

  "La desesperación me parece eminentemente razonable y aburrida". Entrevista con Tao Lin, believermag.com. Septiembre de 2014.

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• I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.

  Tom Barbash

  Thinking, Vices, Levels

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we had forgotten well-nigh everything that the writer told us. Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks it under his arm.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Book, Fading, Arms

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• A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

  Umberto Eco

  Work, Machines, Should

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• In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean." I pointed this passage out to Mom and said it closely matched my own views-I just didn't think about religion.

  Will Schwalbe

  Mom, Atheist, Believe

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.85, Vintage

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• Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away.

  Nancy Pearl

  Voice, Coffins, Lines

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